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Kate Gosselin

Queen of Controversy Kate Gosselin has come under fire yet again, after a tell-all book has revealed she allegedly used the word “r-tarded” to describe other mothers of multiples.

According to reporter Robert Hoffman, who penned the explosive book Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World, the offensive exchange came December 2006 after a woman named Patti reached out to her now ex-husband Jon Gosselin about joining a forum dedicated to parents of multiples.

“On Dec. 31, 2006, Jon forwarded Kate an email that he had received the day before from the coordinator of something called the ‘MOST’ forum (MOST stands for Mothers of Supertwins). The forum coordinator, ‘Patti. T.’, asked Jon if he would post something to introduce himself and his family on the forum,” Robert writes in the tell-all.

“It is not clear why Patti T.’s email annoyed Kate, but her curt response to Jon about it is offensive. Kate said, ‘These people are r-tarded.’”

Radar, who first reported the contents of the email, reached out to the Special Olympics about the derogatory word choice and they issued a statement of disappointment in Kate’s use of the slur.

“We’re always saddened and disappointed when we hear of people using the R-word,” Christy White, Director of Global Media Relations and Public Relations at the Special Olympics, explains.

“We encourage people to go to R-Word.org and take the pledge. It’s important because it’s respect toward everyone.”

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Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs came under fire on July 17 when he tweeted a joke about the Malaysia Airlines flight that had reportedly been shot down over Ukraine—just months after the same airline mysteriously lost another jet.

The Orange Is the New Black star was immediately met with backlash about being “too soon” and he initially defended his crude sense of humor—but eventually apologized for his insensitive tweet.

This isn’t the first time he’s received backlash for tasteless comedy. Earlier this year, he infamously joked about the death of Eric Hill, a contestant on The Bachelorette who passed away shortly after he wrapped filming.

“Crazy rule change – instead of voting off contestants, this season #TheBachelorette gets to kill them off,” he tweeted.

He stood by those controversial comments.

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Kanye West

Based on the sheer number of controversies caused, it would seem Kanye West has the biggest mouth in Hollywood.

One of his most notorious scandals came at a 2011 concert in the United Kingdom, where he likened himself to Hitler.

“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m f--king insane, like I’m Hitler,” he said while on stage.

A more recent controversy came to light when he compared press intrusion to rape earlier this month.

“Everybody needs a day off, everybody needs the right to say, ‘Hey, you know what I need a minute to breathe.’ I want to bring my family to the movies without 30 motherf--kers following me,” he said while onstage at a festival in London.

“Everybody here, they like sex, right? Sex is great when you and your partner are like, ‘Hey this is what we both want to do.’ But if one of those people don’t want to do that, what is that called? That’s called rape. That’s called violation.”

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Juan Pablo Galavis

Juan Pablo Galavis came under fire earlier this year when he was asked about the possibility of a gay Bachelor and told reporters it shouldn’t happen because homosexual people are more “perverted in a sense” adding he doesn’t “think it is a good example for kids to watch that on TV.”

He later apologized, citing the language barrier as the cause of the misunderstanding.

Months later, he sparked controversy again when he retweeted a joke using the word, “r-tard.”

He justified the use of the slur, again blaming the difference in culture by saying the word is accepted in his native Venezuela.

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Kristen Stewart

People may think being famous means living a charmed life, but that isn’t the case for Kristen Stewart, who can relate to Kanye’s conclusion that the paparazzi are like sex offenders.

“What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.” She told British Elle at the peak of her fame in 2010.

“The photos are so… I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped.”

She later apologized for misspeaking and making light of the unthinkable people suffer from everyday.

“I really made an enormous mistake—clearly and obviously,” she said.

“And I’m really sorry about my choice of words… ‘Violated’ definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought.”

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Madonna

In January of this year, Madonna publicly apologized after she used the N-word in the caption of an Instagram picture she posted of her 13-year-old son Rocco.

“I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the N-word on Instagram,” she said in a statement. “It was not meant as a racial slur … I am not a racist.”

The Material Girl posted a picture of her son boxing and wrote, “No one messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said known you out! #disn---a”

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Charlize Theron

Apparently, Kanye and Kristen aren’t alone in feeling like the paparazzi’s unsolicited presence is like rape—as Charlize Theron recently made shockingly similar statements about what the constant coverage is like for her and her young son.

The strong statement came during an interview in May, during which she was asked if she ever Googles herself.

“I don’t do that, so that’s my saving grace,” she told Sky News.

“When you start living in that world, and doing that, you start, I guess, feeling raped.”

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Tracy Morgan

No one was laughing during Tracy Morgan’s stand-up routine at a New York comedy club in 2011 after he made a joke that was not only discriminatory against people with intellectual disabilities, but also racist.

He told the audience not to “mess with woman who have r-tarded kids” because “them young r-tarded males is [sic] strong… like chimps.”

The “joke” came around the same time he returned to the comedy scene, after taking a break because he was caught making homophobic remarks, such as saying “I would stab my son if he acted gay.”